Thinker Says (A Dual Collection of Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinhe)

Author: Wang Xiaobo
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: What is the most important in a person's life? It is love, an indispensable emotion and comfort that one cannot be without for a minute. Love and emotions are like sunshine and air, giving every living person the strength and courage to live and grow. The Thinker Speaks is a dual collection written by Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinhe! In The Tin Drum, Günter Grass wrote about a person who refused to grow up. Little Oscar discovered that the world around him was too absurd, so he made up his mind to always be a child. In some mysterious way, a force fulfilled his determination, so he became a dwarf. This story is too magical, but very interesting. It may be impossible to always be a child, but it is possible to maintain silence. Around me, there are many people like me—in public, I say nothing, but in private, I am full of witty remarks. In other words, I tell everything to those I trust and nothing to those I don't trust. At first, I thought this was because of the harsh period I went through (the Cultural Revolution), but later I realized it is a common trait among Chinese people. Ms. Yang Yingtao expressed great, asking why Chinese people don't speak. She has lived abroad for many years and has almost become an outspoken foreigner. She views silence as cowardice, but that is wrong. Silence is a way of life, not just for Chinese people but also for foreigners who choose this lifestyle. I know an example: He was the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich of the former Soviet Union. For a long time, he wrote his music without uttering a word. Later, he suddenly dictated a thick volume of memoirs, signed each page, and then died. As far as I know, the main content of the memoirs was...